Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Ann Reed

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Ann Reed.
Last updated on October 12, 2024.
Ann Reed

Ann Reed is an American singer-songwriter and guitar player from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is one of the few women guitarists who primarily play the twelve-string guitar. Reed has appeared on Good Morning America and on radio shows such as A Prairie Home Companion and The Morning Show on Minnesota Public Radio, All Things Considered, and Mountain Stage. She has performed at folk festivals including Bumbershoot and the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and continues to perform in concert. In recent years, Ann has also developed her talents as a playwright and voice-over talent, creating and producing a podcast called The Henry and Buster Show. She donates up to 25% of her concert tour bookings for organizations that primarily address issues affecting women and children. Reed first recorded independently then with Red House Records, but since the early 1990s she has produced and distributed her music through her own company, "Turtlecub Productions". Ann Reed's first novel, "Citizens of Campbell," was published in 2016.

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem. — © Ann Reed
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.
This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making words rhyme and saying exactly what we want them to say in a short amount of time. ...the primary reason for keeping it short and to the point is to be certain that you're not boring your audience.
Whatever you do in this life, take time to sit quietly and let the world tell you what it needs from you. Take a moment to honestly understand what your gifts are-you have them.
When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!
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